Cosmographia Monster/Event Journal ([personal profile] stigematize) wrote in [community profile] cosmoooc2015-03-22 10:30 am
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TEST DRIVE

Maybe you've been here for a while, or maybe you just got here. Either way, you're all in the same situation - you've been turned into a magical gemstone and stranded in a foreign world! And all you've been left with is the clothes on your back, stripped of all powers except one.

Clearly, you’ll just have to make the best of it.

How this works:

☆ This is a test drive for [community profile] cosmographia, which means you should get a little familiar with the setting and premise.

☆ Otherwise, this is just meant to help you feel out how you may play and serves mainly as a chill interest gathering and get together kind of post! No app necessary, and you don't need to play in this post to apply - or vice versa.

☆ Everybody is welcome! There are no character limitations; pg au oc canon pigeon whatever. Just toss up a topcomment and/or jump any threads that pique your interest.

☆ Rules-wise: Be cool to yourself and others, and keep in mind the other game rules too.

☆ If you do apply to the game and are accepted, and you want to keep the CR, you may so long as what you did isn't setting breaking and everyone involved agrees.


YOUR OPTIONS:

☆ You find yourself in the Heart of a ruined temple. There is a large glowing gem that thrums with some kind of rhythm, and jewels scattered all over the room, kept in strange bubbles. At the very least, touching the large gem will give you a standard info-dump, but some of you might be a little cautious about touching weird luminescent gems. Good thing that there are other people there too!

☆ Or perhaps you already know everything there is to know, and are there in the Heart of the Ruined Temple to greet new arrivals. Or perhaps you simply had business there already, like storing away a corrupted gem from a monster, when someone new seemingly dropped in from no where.

☆ It's Farmer's Market day in the plaza of Waverly Bay! Perhaps you're there perusing the goods and strike up conversation, or accidentally bump into someone and get to know them that way. It's a fairly standard day.

☆ There's an event! You don't really know what else to call them - missions, perhaps? But something in the temple was triggered, and the glowy Heart gem has something new to "tell" you: If you want a new power, you should try telling other people two truths and a lie. Those who you interact with must try and divine the lie from your statements.

You have no idea how something this simple will get you a power, but hey.
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[personal profile] lookoutforthetriangleguy 2015-03-23 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He straightens up from his bow, setting his hat back on his head and straightening it.]

Ugh, tell me about it. I know the feeling, sweetheart. Stranded, all alone in a weird place full of people who just don't get it. It's enough to drive anybody a little nuts. [He steps forward again, smiling down at her from beneath the brim of his hat.] Well, don't you worry about a thing, Teardrop. I'm here for you now.





[INTERNAL. LAUGHTER.]

green triangles | that thing what this thing is based on

[personal profile] kindergartencop 2015-03-23 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Peridot is a lot of things right now. Confused. Isolated. Maybe a little itchy. But primarily she's just very, very, very annoyed. Which is honestly the norm for her, so she holds onto it like a life preserver. Her own irritation isn't the only touchstone for her here, but it's the only one she can reasonably rely on.

Everything about this seems like a pale mockery of familiar things. These Gems aren't the Gems she knows, and the idea of it only makes her madder.

Anybody in the temple will probably notice her slowly circling the Heart, looking it over for cracks or impurities or, hopefully, some kind of access port. Every few rotations, she lets out a vague grunt of frustration and starts circling around the other way.
]
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[personal profile] icytouch 2015-03-23 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ a suitable name, she thinks. ]

My name is Elsa. Have you.. been here long?
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[personal profile] magistermentium 2015-03-23 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
YOW--!!

[That gets him off guard, apparently since Dipper's foot is a lot stronger than his arm. Bill winces and steps back a bit, more from the surprise than the actual pain, since the latter is not an entirely unpleasant sensation for him.]

Yeesh, kid! Lighten up!
Edited 2015-03-23 04:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hevenly 2015-03-23 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Farmers market

[ The way Angela dresses, it's not hard to see the round orange gem embedded in her stomach, just beneath her rib cage. She wanders the busy marketplace, observing but not buying anything. She doesn't use money, exactly.

Eventually she stops at a stall selling ice cream. ]


What must I give you in return for this treat? [ $2.50? That holds no meaning to Angela. She asks again. ] What is it you want in return. I will do nothing for nothing.

[ Maybe someone ought to step in and help negotiate... ]


Two truths and a lie

[ If Angela is going accept her place here, she'll need all the power she can get. And this... game seems an easy price to pay for said power. ]

I am an angel of Heven. I am an Asgardian. I could kill you where you stand before you drew your weapon.

[ The last one is obviously true. Between the other two, which one is actually a lie and which Angela would prefer to be a lie might be up to interpretation. ]
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[personal profile] lazaward 2015-03-23 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
...Really?

[GEE WHAT A NICE GUY

SHE SURE IS LUCKY TO HAVE MET HIM]


I've... never met anyone who understands before. Even before I got here, when I met other people from my planet, they just... none of them understood. [She might be getting a little too excited, so she dials it back a bit.] ...Sorry. I've just been alone with this for so long.
magistermentium: (▲ lately i'm feeling like a big bang)

MAJOR SPOILER WARNING FOR GRAVITY FALLS SEASON 2 EPISODE 11 SORT OF???

[personal profile] magistermentium 2015-03-23 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Good. His day is always a little better when he ruins something for you, Stan♥]

I can still be whatever height I want, exactly like before! I just always thought of myself as a tall, bright, and handsome sort of guy! What, I didn't strike you as a true classy gentleman?

Your brother seemed to think so~
no_refunds: (RRGH!)

BILL IS THE WORST

[personal profile] no_refunds 2015-03-23 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[You can almost hear something snap in Stan, a whole new wave of old rage welling up and taking over. Despite what Bill said about his pleasure for pain, Stan needs to get this one out. It's one thing for Stan to have dealt with this triangle over the years. It's another to be reminded of the time before then, of the manipulation of his twin.

He grabs Bill by the collar and hefts him off the ground, reeling his right arm back in preparation for the punch. The gem in his tightened fist suddenly begins to glow, forming a pair of shining obsidian knuckledusters around his hands. He aims right for Bill's disgusting little grin.]
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[personal profile] rosecrystarium 2015-03-23 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Lightning is not one to hesitate. Once you take in your surroundings, access everything, you have to strike.

There was nothing to strike here. Just the giant crystal in the middle of the room. She's touched it already, and yes the info helped, it was just an annoyance to her. It'd be easier for someone to just tell you what was going on. But Lightning has never been the most outgoing of people. If someone looks like they need help, she'll help. Otherwise the other people in the room may as well not exist.

So she'll stand here and think about what she learned from the crystal. There's no use rushing ahead without a plan. Or at least the beginning of one, and just winging the rest later. As long as the enemy goes down hard.

What would Serah and the others do if they were here.]
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[personal profile] exceptionallybright 2015-03-23 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
Well in my mind, a "super" power would be something like being able to scale tall buildings with a single jump, or strike with the force of a locomotive. An ability with panache. [Justice says that word in a very French way.]
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[personal profile] magistermentium 2015-03-23 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
[As if Bill wouldn't have kept his mouth shut if he DIDN'T expect this kind of response out of Stan. He knew the old man would react this way, whether or not he was aware of how much Bill actually enjoyed being physically hurt. As such, he puts up no resistance, continuing to smile the whole time...

Even once the gemstone knuckles collide with his face, knocking a couple teeth out and the rest of him onto the ground. He moans, though only partly from agony. It's more thanks to an unsettling union of pain and pleasure, the sort of experience only possible for the sickest, most twisted of masochists...
Or one (former) dream "demon," if that's even what an incongruous creature like him truly was.]
no_refunds: (*heavy sigh*)

[personal profile] no_refunds 2015-03-23 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Stan's breath is ragged from the exertion of the punch and the unpleasant emotional reaction. He glances down at the weight around his hands, eyes widening in surprise at the conjured weapons. They vanish in a puff of dust.

He scowls in response to Bill's bloody cackling, turning sharply on his heel and storming out of the room. He's not worth dealing with right now, not even for some kind of revenge-fueled, well-deserved beatdown.]
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[personal profile] cantaffjordablizzard 2015-03-23 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[wild girl with wild hair has wild ideas, more news at eleven.

without so much as a trace of fear, anna approaches the gem, examining it more closely, trying to find some secret engraving.]


Well, this doesn't seem like your regular gemstone! It seems like... a heart. So, maybe, it's got something to s--

[in her searching, anna places her hands on the gem, and suddenly, she's flooded with answers, even to things she didn't know to ask about. and even when she has more questions, some of those are answered too. if she is there for a second or a year, she doesn't know, and when she's received all she can from the gem, she pulls away and stumbles back, touching at her head.]

Elsa...
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[personal profile] icytouch 2015-03-23 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ ways to give your big sister a heart attack: the anna memoirs ]

Anna!

[ elsa isn't the adventurous sort, so of course she hadn't thought to try to touch the thing, at least not yet, but anna's going on and doing it before elsa can stop her. and then she's stumbling back, and elsa is right there to steady her with both hands on her shoulders, concern written all over her face. ]

What happened? Are you all right?
al2o3cr: (Bright lights and... lollipops?)

Ruby Rose | RWBY

[personal profile] al2o3cr 2015-03-23 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Ruby touched the crystal immediately upon arrival, because of course she did, so at least she knows what's up. And hey, that new Actual Ruby-As-In-the-Gemstone-Not-the-Teenage-Girl in her hand lets her summon up Crescent Rose!

She summons and dispels it a couple of times to watch the actual sparkling rose petals that fly everywhere when it happens, then turns her attention to the room around her so as to like. Actually maybe find people she knows? If they're here? Man she hopes someone she knows is here.]


Yang? Blake? ... Weiss? Anybody else decide to go through the weird hole?
weiss_nine: <user name="iconsbyafangirl" site="tumblr.com"> (let the storm rage on)

[personal profile] weiss_nine 2015-03-23 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
RUBY!

[oh, speak of the devil! weiss is here and since ruby's here and ruby's team leader? this is ruby's fault, in weiss-logic. it's ruby's fault they're someplace weird that doesn't look like vale at all and it's ruby's fault that there's a weird crystalline growth right where her necklace falls.

not cool, ruby. not cool.]
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[personal profile] broltergeist 2015-03-23 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Welp, look at this loser getting spat out unceremoniously into the temple and faceplanting gloriously onto the floor. Billy pulls himself up without missing a beat, gaping at the strange (ly familiar?) room and apparently completely oblivious to the soft blue stone now embedded in his throat.]

DUDE! Hey Brometheus, you gotta get down here and see this! It's -

[And then he's turning around, realizing the the hole he came through is nowhere in sight.]

...brotractor? Spence? C'mon, freaky gem room, not cool!

[He... well, he tries to do something. Sort of lifts his own feet out from under him, and gravity promptly sends him back down to smack the back of his head on the very solid floor this time. Hi Billy, you're no longer a ghost. Given that he's kept the overall blue tone to his skin and hair, however, it might be reasonable that he didn't quite notice at first.

Then again, it IS Billy Joe Cobra we're talking about.]


Da-ha-hoooowwwwwwwww!

[Yep, gonna curl up, clutch his head, and whimper about it like a big baby.]
al2o3cr: (Everything's coming up roses!)

[personal profile] al2o3cr 2015-03-23 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Ruby grins, because look Weiss this place is AWESOME okay]

Weiss!

[:D]
weiss_nine: <user name="iconsbyafangirl" site="tumblr.com"> (it's time to see what i can do)

[personal profile] weiss_nine 2015-03-23 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
[no.]

Ruby Rose, I don't know what you did or how you did it, but undo it this instant!
al2o3cr: ([weiss] ruby's gonna show you the tops)

[personal profile] al2o3cr 2015-03-23 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, I didn't do this! I mean I did go through the hole, but it was a magic hole! What was I supposed to do?

[Then the voice saying GOTTA SHOW WEISS THE COOL THING takes over and she holds out her hand.]

Look, Weiss! I'm actually a ruby now!
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[personal profile] weiss_nine 2015-03-23 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Wha - [DISGRUNTLED WEISS NOISE.]

Ruby. When you see a magic hole, nothing is a worse idea than going in without knowing what could be in there! [let's ignore that weiss did it too otherwise she wouldn't be here.] Now we're stuck here - wherever "here" is.
al2o3cr: (I had a dream - a dream about you)

[personal profile] al2o3cr 2015-03-23 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
It was shaped just like me! And now we're gems!

[A beat.]

Did you go through the same hole or did another one show up for you? The gem didn't tell me exactly how the whole hole thing works. Heh. Whole hole.
weiss_nine: <user name="jjabberboxy"> (no right no wrong no rules for me)

weiss schnee | rwby

[personal profile] weiss_nine 2015-03-23 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Hmph. The freaky gem said that if Weiss told someone two truths and a lie and they guessed which was which, then she could have a new power. And since the capabilities of this . . . gem that was so rudely fused to her body leave an awful lot to be desired, Weiss will reluctantly play. She yells out to the first person that walks by.]

You there! Come help me with the task that was given to me by that . . . gem.
weiss_nine: <user name="jjabberboxy"> (the snow glows white on the mt tonight)

[personal profile] weiss_nine 2015-03-23 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
I have no idea what you're talking about. Hasn't anyone ever told you that you have to start an explanation from the beginning?

[seriously, ruby. weiss doesn't TOUCH STRANGE THINGS SHE'S NEVER SEEN BEFORE.]
al2o3cr: (Bright lights and... lollipops?)

[personal profile] al2o3cr 2015-03-23 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Ruby sighs. U JUST WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW HELPFUL TOUCHING WEIRD MAGIC GEMS CAN BE, WEISS.]

You didn't touch the big magic gem, did you? It uh. It explains stuff.

[Nailed the explanation. Nailed it.]